"Breakfast at Tiffany's (song) ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" is a 1995 song recorded by American alternative rock band Deep Blue Something. Originally appearing on the album ""11th Song"", it was later re-recorded and released on their album ""Home"". It was the band's only hit, peaking at number five on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Outside the United States, ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" topped the charts in the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Germany, Iceland, the Republic of Ireland and Sweden. Todd Pipes said in a ""Q"" magazine article about the promotion of"
"describe the house he lived in at the time, 70 Willow Street—which is where he wrote what many consider his two greatest works, ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" and ""In Cold Blood"". The essay then gives evocative descriptions of Capote's favorite local haunts—everything from restaurants to antique stores to cat-filled alleyways—as well as various neighborhood characters, before ending with an ominous story about being threatened by a ""Cobra,"" or gang member, near the East River. John Knowles, an editor at Holiday who later became an acclaimed novelist in his own right, has said that the magazine ""asked me to get Truman for"
"become one of the most famous photographers in history. While living in her apartment in New York, a young author, Truman Capote visited a friend in an apartment near hers. Capote was fascinated by Dorian's lifestyle of non-stop men, coming-and-goings, and having a store across the street handle her phone calls (since there were no answering machines back in the early 1950s). He struck up a friendship with Dorian, and called her ""Happy-go-lucky."" Capote's character Holly Golightly in his famous 1958 novel Breakfast at Tiffany's is said to be largely based on Dorian's life, as well as socialite Gloria Vanderbilt's."
"its elegantly arrayed tables, set against a backdrop of handsome French seaside murals, as for its food. Mr. Rachou said he spent more than $2,200 a week on flowers and more than $3,000 on linen."" Truman Capote's unfinished novel ""Answered Prayers"" had as its setting a ""catty and thinly veiled"" version of the La Côte Basque; the chapter ""La Côte Basque 1965"" was excerpted in ""Esquire"" magazine in 1975., A scene from the film ""Light Sleeper"" (1992), directed by Paul Schrader, features Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon eating lunch in the restaurant. Famous patrons included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Babe Paley,"
"Lunch at the Gotham Café ""Lunch at the Gotham Café"" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It originally appeared in the 1995 anthology ""Dark Love"" (edited by Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer and Martin H. Greenberg). In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection ""Six Stories"". In 2002, it was included in King's collection ""Everything's Eventual"", with a scene from the story featured on the cover of the collection's first edition dust jacket. Steve Davis comes home one day to find a letter from his wife, Diane, coldly stating she has left him and"
"Chamberlin Inn The Chamberlin Inn is a historic Cody, Wyoming hotel and landmark, known famously as the hotel where Ernest Hemingway stayed and finished his manuscript, ""Death in the Afternoon"". Located at 1032 12th Street in downtown Cody, Wyoming the small boutique hotel is 21 units made up of a series of suites, rooms, cottage and garden studios, as well as the Court House Residence, all within a brick and wrought iron courtyard. In 1900 Agnes (Aggie) Chamberlin made the journey from Kansas to Cody based on a job awarded to her to work for the famous Buffalo Bill Cody"
"artifacts"" and ""forgettable instrumentals"". The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with their strict assistant principal (Paul Gleason). The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985. Universal Pictures released it in cinemas in the United States on February 15, 1985. It received critical acclaim and earned $51.5 million on a $1 million budget. Critics consider it the greatest high"
"socialite protagonist in Truman Capote's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958), which was made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1961. The name of this character is stated to be short for ""Holiday"" (rather than a reference to the plant). The name peaked in popularity in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, and has declined since, ranking at #380 in the United States as of 2009. It was popularly given in England and Wales during the 2000s, staying in the top 30 girls' names throughout 1996–2012, with a peak at rank #12 in 2002 (and dropping to rank #33"
"Carrington House The Carrington House is a bungalow located in the hamlet of Cherry Grove, New York. Built around 1912, it was one of the first buildings in the town and constructed for Frederick Marquet. It is typical of early buildings on Fire Island. It was acquired by theater director Frank Carrington in 1927, who enlarged the house. Under his ownership, the house was a popular refuge for LGBT artists like Truman Capote; ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" was written there. Fire Island is a barrier island off the southern shore of Long Island in New York. In 1869, the Long Island"
"Bee” (a demo recording by Harold Arlen). Michael Alexander was the lead player of the steel-drum threesome, the members of which were recruited from Trinidad by cast member Geoffrey Holder. The three pannists were Michael Alexander, Roderick Clavery and Alphonso Marshall. House of Flowers (musical) House of Flowers is a musical by Harold Arlen (music and lyrics) and Truman Capote (lyrics and book), based on his own short story, first published in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958). This was Capote's first musical, and was the first theatrical production outside of Trinidad and Tobago to feature the new Caribbean instrument—the steel pan."
"of baffled...I felt a little bit like Truman was going to give the ball anyway and that I was part of the props."" For his venue, Capote chose the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Capote had long held a deep affection for the Plaza, even setting the opening scene of his attempted first novel, ""Summer Crossing"", in a Plaza dining room. Capote enlisted Evie Backer, who had decorated his apartment at United Nations Plaza, for the event's decor. Initially Capote planned to cover the ballroom's white and gold walls with heavy red drapes but Backer"
"House of Flowers (musical) House of Flowers is a musical by Harold Arlen (music and lyrics) and Truman Capote (lyrics and book), based on his own short story, first published in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958). This was Capote's first musical, and was the first theatrical production outside of Trinidad and Tobago to feature the new Caribbean instrument—the steel pan. It was produced by Saint Subber who was also responsible for ""Kiss Me, Kate"" and seven plays by Neil Simon. The story concerns two neighboring bordellos that battle for business in an idealized Haitian setting. One of the prostitutes, Ottilie, turns"
"Breakfast in the Ruins Breakfast in the Ruins: ""A Novel of Inhumanity"" is a 1972 novel by Michael Moorcock, which mixes historical and speculative fiction. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the New English Library. The novel centres on Karl Glogauer, who is also the protagonist of Moorcock's Nebula Award winning novella, ""Behold the Man"", his homosexual exploits with an unnamed man from Nigeria, and his fantasies of the past and lives that he could have led. The novel is divided into nineteen chapters, the first of which is set in the 'present' (1971), the next seventeen"
"Sportsman of the Year, Woodruff Cup, Viking Rowing, Rings: NY Giants (2007, 2010) NO Saints (2009) SF Giants (2010, 2012) USA Basketball (2010, 2012) LA Kings (2012, 2014) LA Galaxy (2012) Seattle Seahawks (2012) The retailer has earned mentions in various works, most notably in the title of the 1958 Truman Capote novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", famously adapted as a 1961 film of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn, which in turn prompted a 1966 musical flop. The Hepburn film was later invoked in the refrain of a 1995 alternative rock song. In the 1974 song ""Hotel California"" by the"
"Larom, Stanley, and Haliburton. Ernest Hemingway's signature is on one of the Chamberlin Inn's original guest registers and is displayed in Room 18, where the author stayed for several days in 1932. During this time, Ernest Hemingway had completed the manuscript for ""Death in the Afternoon"" and mailed the manuscript and several short stories to his publishers from his Cody, Wyoming location. Hemingway spent his days fishing the Clark's Fork River and was known to frequent the Irma Bar at night. The Chamberlin Inn has been featured in many travel magazines and books including Fodors ""Choice"", National Geographic Traveler Magazine,"
"Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel and the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio. It focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. ""Breakfast of Champions"" has themes of free will, suicide, and race relations among others. Kilgore Trout is a widely published, but otherwise unsung and virtually invisible writer who is invited to deliver a keynote address at"
"The Dogs Bark (anthology) The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places is an anthology of works by American author Truman Capote. It was published on September 12, 1973 and includes essays from ""Local Color"" and ""Observations"", as well as ""The Muses Are Heard"". The work is largely retrospective look at Truman Capote's life spanning the time frame from 1942 to 1972. The title, inspired by the author André Gide is taken from an Arab proverb: ""The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on."" Lis Harris when writing for ""The New Yorker"" said: ""Capote describes these pieces as ""silhouettes and"
"Black and White Ball The Black and White Ball was a masquerade ball held on November 28, 1966 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Hosted by author Truman Capote, the ball was in honor of ""The Washington Post"" publisher Katharine Graham. Truman Capote decided in June 1966 to throw a lavish party. He was at the height of his popularity as an author and as a public figure following the publication of his non-fiction novel, ""In Cold Blood"", earlier that year. For the first time Capote had the financial resources to host a party he deemed worthy of"
"Top Ten Inns, Frommers, Historic Hotels of the Rockies, Cowboys & Indian Magazine, Moon Guide, Lonely Planet, Insider's Guide, Sunset Magazine and Western Art & Architecture. Chamberlin Inn The Chamberlin Inn is a historic Cody, Wyoming hotel and landmark, known famously as the hotel where Ernest Hemingway stayed and finished his manuscript, ""Death in the Afternoon"". Located at 1032 12th Street in downtown Cody, Wyoming the small boutique hotel is 21 units made up of a series of suites, rooms, cottage and garden studios, as well as the Court House Residence, all within a brick and wrought iron courtyard. In"
"and never went into wide release. Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel and the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio. It focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. ""Breakfast of Champions"" has themes of free will, suicide, and race relations among others. Kilgore Trout is a widely published, but otherwise unsung and virtually invisible writer who is invited"
"leave Park Avenue. Of his early days, Capote related, ""I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about eleven. I say seriously in the sense that like other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day, and I would write for about three hours. I was obsessed by it."" In 1935, he attended the Trinity School in New York City. He then attended St. Joseph Military Academy. In 1939, the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote"
"The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as teenagers from different high school cliques who spend a Saturday in detention with their strict assistant principal (Paul Gleason). The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7, 1985. Universal Pictures released it in cinemas in the United States on February 15, 1985. It received critical acclaim and earned $51.5 million on a $1 million budget. Critics consider it the greatest high school film of all"
"Breakfast in Hollywood (film) Breakfast in Hollywood, also known as The Mad Hatter, is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Harold D. Schuster and written by Earl Baldwin. The film stars Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Edward Ryan, Raymond Walburn, Billie Burke, ZaSu Pitts, Hedda Hopper, Andy Russell, Spike Jones and Nat King Cole. The film was released on February 26, 1946, by United Artists. TBD A woman comes to Hollywood to meet her fiancé, who does not show up. Given a ticket to a radio show, she meets a sailor who was a friend of her fiancé."
"on my corner"", ""A Few Good Women"", ""Deep Heet!"", and ""Remain Silent"", among many others. In the novel ""Strange Angel"", author George Pendel describes Clifton's as ""a bizarre experience"", and a ""kitsch cafeteria provided millions of low-priced meals to the out-of-work and destitute during the darkest days of the depression"", and that it provided a ""surreal sanctuary from a broken world"". Science fiction author Ray Bradbury ate at Clifton's as a struggling writer, often taking advantage of the policy that anyone who couldn't afford to pay didn't have to, and in the 1930s attended meetings of the Los Angeles Science"
"while having breakfast at a restaurant atop a Paris skyscraper (Tour Montparnasse). Each chapter, averaging three pages a piece, represents one minute from 8.30 am - just before the time the building is hit at 8:46am - to 10.29, just after its collapse at 10:28am. The novel debuted at number 2 on the French best seller list and won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2003. It won the 2005 Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction. <ref name=""Fiction prize won by 9/11 novel"">""Fiction prize won by 9/11 novel"" BBC.com, Wednesday, 27 April, 2005.</ref> ""Independent"" literary editor and judge Boyd Tonkin said: ""Frederic"
"Breakfast at Twilight ""Breakfast at Twilight"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on January 17, 1953 and first published in ""Amazing Stories"", July 1954. After experiencing a terrifying explosion, a middle-class American family finds their home in the middle of a wasteland. American soldiers burst in looking for survivors and supplies, under the family's amazed and frightened eyes. The soldiers are just as surprised, finding the home filled with items that are no longer available, and carrying away their food. The soldiers explain that their"
"tour of the entire house (when Smith was not at home) and said it was his house, all his, and that he had restored and decorated every room."" The original essay was illustrated with photographs by David Attie, many of which were taken as Capote showed him around Brooklyn Heights in March, 1958. It was not their first collaboration; Attie had been hired the previous year by famed art director Alexey Brodovitch to produce a big series of photo montages illustrating ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" for what would have been its first publication in ""Harper's Bazaar"". It was the first-ever professional"
"Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir is an autobiographical essay by Truman Capote about his life in Brooklyn in the late 1950s. While it was eventually combined with the original photo illustrations by David Attie in a coffee table edition, and has been included in anthologies as well, it was first published in the February 1959 issue of the mid-century travel magazine ""Holiday"". The essay famously opens with the lines ""I live in Brooklyn. By choice."" Capote goes on to offer a short history of the neighborhood and how he came to live there, and to"
"bring renewed attention to Attie's work. Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir is an autobiographical essay by Truman Capote about his life in Brooklyn in the late 1950s. While it was eventually combined with the original photo illustrations by David Attie in a coffee table edition, and has been included in anthologies as well, it was first published in the February 1959 issue of the mid-century travel magazine ""Holiday"". The essay famously opens with the lines ""I live in Brooklyn. By choice."" Capote goes on to offer a short history of the neighborhood and how he"
"Denmark. It is also mentioned in Henry James’, “The American”, chapter one. (Christopher Newman “supped” there the night before visiting the Louvre. Café Anglais The Café Anglais (, ""English café"") was a famous French restaurant located at the corner of the Boulevard des Italiens (n° 13) and the Rue de Marivaux in Paris, France. Opened in 1802, the restaurant was named in honor of the Treaty of Amiens, a peace accord signed between Britain and France. In the beginning, its clientele were coachmen and domestic servants but later became frequented by actors and patrons of the nearby Opera House. In"
"as ""celebrated for its toothsome terrapin, its canvasback ducks, its turtle soup, its oyster and tripe stews, no less than for its more plebeian corned beef and cabbage."" Francis Marion Crawford's novel ""Katharine Lauderdale"" was partially written while he stayed there, and its events are laid out in the same neighborhood. Henry Cuyler Bunner stayed there while writing ""Short Sixes"" and his Washington Square stories. Other well-known guests included playwright Paul Potter and explorer Paul Du Chaillu. The hotel was demolished shortly after closing in April 1908 to make way for an office building. A 12-story building was constructed in"
"During the 1980s, Hughes hosted ""Wednesday Breakfasts"" which were famous for the scones. The Anne Hughes Coffee Room was started in 1985 at Powell's Books after Hughes gave a written proposal to owner, Michael Powell. The Coffee Room was famous as a meeting place and for The Anne Hughes Coffee Room Books, a series of blank journals put out by Hughes to be filled in by patrons. Leo Burt, the fugitive believed to be behind the Sterling Hall bombing and one-time Unabomber suspect may have visited the Coffee Room and written in one of the books in 1988. On September"
"Capote's original book. I. Y. Yunioshi I. Y. Yunioshi is a fictional character in Blake Edwards' 1961 American romantic comedy ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", which was adapted for the screen by George Axelrod based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same title. The character in the film is significantly different from the character as presented in Capote's original novella, and the film version of Mr. Yunioshi, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney, has been the subject of extensive critical commentary and review since its theatrical release. In the early 1960s and before, racially charged humor was acceptable in American culture, although"